Can someone knowledgeable (i.e. not speculating) or working in the medical device industry explain why we can't use some really hard material like a titanium alloy or Kevlar to make the skull bullet-proof, especially for those in combat?
And academic articles should be paid-access even though the authors of the articles paid for publication, and the public has paid (through taxes) for the research in those articles. Right?
The submitter was probably a non-native English speaker so his language errors can be excused. What the hell is with the slashdot editing? Come on guys... it takes one minute to correct the mistakes in that summary.
Wish I had the points to mod you down. The prediction only needs to be right once for you not to be around making snarks. Besides, the clock is not a "predictor", it is an indicator of potential danger.
Actually the real Buddha was quite thin. Almost emaciated if historical accounts in India are accurate. Not sure how the round Buddha stuff came up in Japan.
Actually this is a great suggestion. At least for those who have their own offices. Will do this from now on. Wish I had mod points today. Standing at the desk is also a great idea. Now if only those treadmill desks don't cost the earth...
Lord Kelvin was quite an interesting guy, to say the least. The following quotes are also attributed to him by reliable sources:
"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement."
"X-rays will prove to be a hoax."
"Radio has no future".
On the contrary. We are definitely not going to be stuck for too long. And it's not the space ships, and space suits and other stuff that will take our species (?) into space. It will be biotechnology. In the next two hundred years humans will engineer themselves to be space-tolerant. We will fly, survive underwater (evolve gills may be), and float into space. In fact this self-engineering is sure to start within the next forty years. Sure we may still use air-tight suits, but we will also evolve exoskeletons and biomechanical suits to survive on Mars. Space flight technology will continue to evolve, there may be no hyper-drive in the next ten thousand years, but there will be space-faring. We, or more exactly our progenitor species of engineered human beings will migrate into space and survive, and ensure survival of intelligent species of terrestrial origin.
Meanwhile let not something like optimism stop you from ranting.
Not the lame Samsung Note 10.1, but a serious 1080p+ Android competitor to the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro. A low power long battery life one just like the Note. Windows 8 tablet is fine too, as long as the price is not a ridiculous $1200.
Moron! Have it in your backyard. Managed by a corrupt power company, overseen by bribed regulators. Hey, make sure you live alone in that neighborhood because none of your neighbors deserve the crap in the water table.
I always end up in a broken installation *every* time I 'upgrade' - partial upgrade, full upgrade, and whatever else upgrade. Many times even simple kernel updates. Multiple devices that were working before stop functioning (particularly wifi, graphics and at times sound). Note: I always use the linux hardware compatibility list when I buy my hardware. Even then the story is pretty bad.
Long story short, I am looking for a paid and supported linux. That's right, for an individual consumer. There are a lot of us, not just enterprises who can pay annual support. I am sick and tired of mucking with my system every time I upgrade at the end of a supported version. I want to pay, and get something that works on my system, and continues to work, even after upgrading (willing to pay for the damn upgrades too).
Do you plan to offer such a thing? Or am I simply unaware of a product that already exists?
I wish there was a mod rating called "Hopelessly moronic and deluded".
That some people even modded parent as interesting on a supposedly educated site like/. is even more depressing. May be civilization usually ends because people have refused to be deluded and pig-headed. Darwin award for an entire civilization. Too bad there is only one we know.
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Laughed my ass out. Truly good one!
Can someone knowledgeable (i.e. not speculating) or working in the medical device industry explain why we can't use some really hard material like a titanium alloy or Kevlar to make the skull bullet-proof, especially for those in combat?
This. Where are my mod points when I need them?
If there ever was an insightful comment on fb.. this is it.
Facebook. An openly ruthless privacy destroyer. What Google, MS and Apple do is small potatoes compared to the facebook problem.
And academic articles should be paid-access even though the authors of the articles paid for publication, and the public has paid (through taxes) for the research in those articles. Right?
Lol. Wish I had mod points.
The submitter was probably a non-native English speaker so his language errors can be excused. What the hell is with the slashdot editing? Come on guys... it takes one minute to correct the mistakes in that summary.
Wish I had the points to mod you down. The prediction only needs to be right once for you not to be around making snarks. Besides, the clock is not a "predictor", it is an indicator of potential danger.
Actually the real Buddha was quite thin. Almost emaciated if historical accounts in India are accurate. Not sure how the round Buddha stuff came up in Japan.
Actually this is a great suggestion. At least for those who have their own offices. Will do this from now on. Wish I had mod points today. Standing at the desk is also a great idea. Now if only those treadmill desks don't cost the earth...
Wish I had mod points for you man..
and spent too much of my youth toiling in it.... screw you Forbes! You're just a propaganda tool. Go find someone gullible targets.
Oh for mod points.. if there ever was one insightful political comment on /.
Lord Kelvin was quite an interesting guy, to say the least. The following quotes are also attributed to him by reliable sources: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement." "X-rays will prove to be a hoax." "Radio has no future".
On the contrary. We are definitely not going to be stuck for too long. And it's not the space ships, and space suits and other stuff that will take our species (?) into space. It will be biotechnology. In the next two hundred years humans will engineer themselves to be space-tolerant. We will fly, survive underwater (evolve gills may be), and float into space. In fact this self-engineering is sure to start within the next forty years. Sure we may still use air-tight suits, but we will also evolve exoskeletons and biomechanical suits to survive on Mars. Space flight technology will continue to evolve, there may be no hyper-drive in the next ten thousand years, but there will be space-faring. We, or more exactly our progenitor species of engineered human beings will migrate into space and survive, and ensure survival of intelligent species of terrestrial origin.
Meanwhile let not something like optimism stop you from ranting.
Not the lame Samsung Note 10.1, but a serious 1080p+ Android competitor to the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro. A low power long battery life one just like the Note. Windows 8 tablet is fine too, as long as the price is not a ridiculous $1200.
Moron! Have it in your backyard. Managed by a corrupt power company, overseen by bribed regulators. Hey, make sure you live alone in that neighborhood because none of your neighbors deserve the crap in the water table.
How in the world did this comment get modded insightful?? That too on slashdot...
Replying just so I could undo a negative moderation I did to parent post, by mistake.
I always end up in a broken installation *every* time I 'upgrade' - partial upgrade, full upgrade, and whatever else upgrade. Many times even simple kernel updates. Multiple devices that were working before stop functioning (particularly wifi, graphics and at times sound). Note: I always use the linux hardware compatibility list when I buy my hardware. Even then the story is pretty bad. Long story short, I am looking for a paid and supported linux. That's right, for an individual consumer. There are a lot of us, not just enterprises who can pay annual support. I am sick and tired of mucking with my system every time I upgrade at the end of a supported version. I want to pay, and get something that works on my system, and continues to work, even after upgrading (willing to pay for the damn upgrades too). Do you plan to offer such a thing? Or am I simply unaware of a product that already exists?
How did the parent get modded up? DDG uses Google. It is meant for private searching. It has the option of using Bing.
Lol.. funny. Wish I had mod points
I wish there was a mod rating called "Hopelessly moronic and deluded". That some people even modded parent as interesting on a supposedly educated site like /. is even more depressing. May be civilization usually ends because people have refused to be deluded and pig-headed. Darwin award for an entire civilization. Too bad there is only one we know.
Just used up all my points. Why was this modded flamebait? It's insightful.